By Her Own Hand

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The town of Aliquippa, PA, was named after Queen Aliquippa.

“Now Queen Allaquippa was the
Indian skipper
Of a tribe down Logstown way;
And George said, “I better win
this lady Indian
And without delay.
So he took her a coat and a jug
of whisky
And stayed a day or so,
And he came back a ridin’and a
lookin’and a walkin’
to the forks of the 0-hi-o.”

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This is one verse of a song titled “The Forks of the O-hi-o” by Robert Schmertz, and it remembers what Queen Aliquippa is most well known for, her encounter with George Washington.

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